enough women to go around. >> women are being trafficked from poorer countries and poorer parts of china and india. >> reporter: but sex selection is not just occurring in foreign countries. it's happening in the united states and right here in the bay area. >> nice deep breath in and out. >> reporter: this doctor -- >> absolutely happens here. >> reporter: -- the ucsf researcher spoke to dozens of immigrant women from india who live in the bay area. the people she interviewed, the vast majority who were pregnant with a girl chose to abort her. the main reason? family pressure even from female relatives. she read from their stories. >> my husband said he needed to have a son. he said that if i cannot give him a son since we have two daughters he would need to find another woman. i thought maybe my mother-in- law thought differently but she also said that if i want to remain in the family, i must have a son. it is not right that women must keep getting pregnant and keep trying to have boys. we are women yet we want no daughters. >> reporter: she says if a woman is already pregnant, the mo